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Re: Off Season
« Reply #200 on: Tuesday September 24, 2019, 05:17:13 PM Eastern »

Sweet.  Go Nats


Hope the Nats hang on to this season.  They have some talent, just can't seem to bring the bullpen together when they need it.  Or the bats....or the starting pitching...


I don't expect to see Rendon back.  Sad, he is outstanding, and I would love to see him stay.

but from the very little I've seen the two sides seem to be really chilly towards each other.  I know it's the agent's game to play that, but I'd rather hear the Nats say..."Yes.  We want him back and will do everything possible to make that happen" and hear Rendon say "Yes.  I want to be back, and we will strive to make that happen.

Mostly you just hear...."we will have to wait and see"

I think someone else can/will pay more for Rendon than the Nats will.
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #201 on: Tuesday September 24, 2019, 09:25:47 PM Eastern »
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #202 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 01:17:17 AM Eastern »
I'm not a protagonist for Harper....was just saying that would be fairly typical result for a pro Washington sports team.
Harper did make a great throw to the plate last night.  Nabbed Soto.  (shouldn't have sent him, but it was a great through few could make)


I have not really kept up with Harper this year.  I'm not that big a baseball fan.  I can barely hang with sort of following the Nats.


Skins looked good last night though  :lol:


I didn't even realize they were on.  I was home late and just came across it after my wife had finished watching (and this is the truth)  Beauty and the Beast.  I sat through 20 minutes of that while I was eating dinner.  It was....unwatchable  (I'm still talking about Beauty and the Beast, not the Skins).  The Skins, on the other hand....ALSO unwatchable.  Although I have to say, now I just sit and shake my head and chuckle, whereas, I used to get frustrated and angry.  Now....I just don't care. I watched about 15 minutes of the game, just to watch, but had no emotional stake in it and that was the sum total of all the NFL I watched this week - 15 min.  The Skins always look so good on the big Monday night games :clap:
I thought the ESPN announcers were Gawd Awful though.  Geez, where are they digging these guys up.  I know Ebonics is acceptable in some LA suburb schools, but this is network TV for crying out loud.  Just because you were once an overpaid, under-performing NFL player, does not mean they should hand you a microphone and ask you to comment after every play. (I am making big assumptions based on 15 minutes - I honestly don't know who the crew was)
The NFL is trash.  They let the core values of the players move from hard work, team play and success to hype, trash talk, and entertainment.  It is pathetic.  I am no longer a fan.  I guess I have known that for years.  I don't know how true diehard football fans can watch anymore.  Must be ALOT of beer sold on Sundays now.


C'MON NHL SEASON!!!


Good post Rich!
Heavily agree, especially on the NFL part!
The phenomenon I’m realizing, with my TOTAL attitude change with the NFL/Redskins/etc. is that I’m now, finally, ACTING, on what I’ve been wanting to do, but just couldn’t quite let go of!!
That is, observing the gradual, and slow, progressive, erosion, of the basic fundamentals of NFL football! In other words, REAL NFL FOOTBALL!!


Fundamentals, as in the most basic actions, that without, or in their absence, whittles away the real spirit and truth of solid, sport competition!


Fundamentals, that have been with us, and engrained in the competitive human psyche, since even before Roman times. WHERE ARE TODAYS VERSION OF REAL SPORT GLADIATORS???


Fuck it, I’ll stop here, and prevent another frustrated rant that accomplishes nothing🤣!!


Anyway, I stopped mostly watching last year, and only a minute or two, literally, this year!
The difference is, I feel GOOD about it!! Fuck ‘em! I don’t miss it either!LOL


Now, I just play more music, or golf, too, which has its own frustration to it, but at least its from my own doing!🤣


Baseball, I’m not so sour about. Mostly because I was done with MLB, way back at the last strike!
But I will watch the Nats, occasionally, do pull for them, but nothing even close to heartbreak if they don’t make the playoffs every year.
Hockey is my last sports hope, and even that, you can sort of feel it’s demise, at least as I know it.  At least certainly in some aspects, but I’m still willing to keep my chin up, so far!


LETS GO.CAPS!!


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Re: Off Season
« Reply #203 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 09:34:37 AM Eastern »

Good post Rich!
Heavily agree, especially on the NFL part!
The phenomenon I’m realizing, with my TOTAL attitude change with the NFL/Redskins/etc. is that I’m now, finally, ACTING, on what I’ve been wanting to do, but just couldn’t quite let go of!!
That is, observing the gradual, and slow, progressive, erosion, of the basic fundamentals of NFL football! In other words, REAL NFL FOOTBALL!!


Fundamentals, as in the most basic actions, that without, or in their absence, whittles away the real spirit and truth of solid, sport competition!


Fundamentals, that have been with us, and engrained in the competitive human psyche, since even before Roman times. WHERE ARE TODAYS VERSION OF REAL SPORT GLADIATORS???


Fuck it, I’ll stop here, and prevent another frustrated rant that accomplishes nothing🤣!!


Anyway, I stopped mostly watching last year, and only a minute or two, literally, this year!
The difference is, I feel GOOD about it!! Fuck ‘em! I don’t miss it either!LOL


Now, I just play more music, or golf, too, which has its own frustration to it, but at least its from my own doing!🤣


Baseball, I’m not so sour about. Mostly because I was done with MLB, way back at the last strike!
But I will watch the Nats, occasionally, do pull for them, but nothing even close to heartbreak if they don’t make the playoffs every year.
Hockey is my last sports hope, and even that, you can sort of feel it’s demise, at least as I know it.  At least certainly in some aspects, but I’m still willing to keep my chin up, so far!


LETS GO.CAPS!!


Rush


Yeah, I gave up on the NFL.  I was never a diehard fan, but I was a pretty big skins fan.  I would usually watch them.  Maybe it's just what we did when I was growing up as a family, but now ...it's just not the same game, and there are so many more options now than there were 30-40 years ago.  I haven't really watched football in the last 5-10 years and have given up entirely over the last 3-4. I don't miss it either.  Unless I am actually bored and have nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon, and nobody is around, and I feel like killing some time (which the culmination of these things never happens), I just don't even think about it.  Glad for it.  Honestly, I think I miss the idea of it more than anything else - sit around and relax with family on a Sunday to watch our team.  I may have watched maybe 10 games in the last 5 seasons and that includes playoffs and super bowls.  I probably couldn't even name 10 current Skins players.  Actually, more like 5.  I try not to be a bitter old guy about it, but that's how it makes me feel - like a grumpy old man.
Pretty much feel the same about the direction of most things these days.  Every time I start to get angry or heated about a subject, I think...."man, I must be getting old", but the reality is...things really have taken a turn for the worse.  I can't listen to the news or watch tv without shaking my head and thinking....where have we gone
I have always been, and always will be a "substance over image" kind of guy, yet that is the opposite of what most things are today.  Nobody actually gives a crap about the truth or doing the right thing, only the appearance of it.  Politics, media, music, movie stars, pro athletes, etc, etc. As long as you look good, everything is okay.  Well...that is not going to lead our culture and our country to success.  Well, I said "nobody" but that's not accurate....mostly


I know my dead relatives would absolutely cringe at today's culture.  My uncle, who was born around 1920, lived through hard times;  depression era, served in WW2, learned, worked and lived a long 96 years.  He was one of my favorite people to talk to.  He was a man of character, with values, and a work ethic.  He made a life for himself and his family through hard work and hard times.  Lived a full life that was HARD, and was all the better for it.  I can't imagine what he would think of today's NFL and His country, which he proudly fought for, all the other shenanigans that go on in politics and today's culture and so on....


Sorry, but I have digressed into my "grumpy old man" again.  :angry:


And I AM NOT THAT OLD.  I'm only 52.  Not old enough to be a grumpy old man, so I guess I am a grumpy middle aged man.
(Yes, if you do the math, my Uncle was much too old, but my father is 78 and he was the 8th of 8 children, and was born when his father was 52 and his mother was 46.  (the doctors thought he was a tumor  :lol: [size=78%]) [/size]
He essentially grew up an only child.
My uncle was pretty much my grandfather figure.  My actual grandfather was born in 1890 and my grandmother was born in 1896.  It's crazy to think.  Grandfather died at 82 (throat cancer) but had been a heavy smoker for decades.  Grandmother lived to 97.  All 8 of there children (my aunts and uncles) lived well into there 90's.  Five of them have passed now, all lived to at least 94 years old.  (Well, my dad isn't in his 90's yet.)  The three youngest are now 92, 86, and 78.  (and the 86 year old still drives and plays golf 3-4 times a week.  Although....you REALLY don't want to ride with him.
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Okay, sorry about the rant and the family history....got carried away in my old man-ness.  It would have sufficed to say...I don't watch the NFL anymore, because it stinks like most other things these days.


I too, am still hanging on for hockey.


Season get here already.  Go Caps!





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Re: Off Season
« Reply #204 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 04:26:38 PM Eastern »
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #205 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 06:57:17 PM Eastern »
You guys giving up on football need to check yourself! You're passing up a perfect opportunity to drink during the day!!  :snicker:  If your a Skins fan it's mandatory, so they tell me..  :uh-huh:  Monday night was just the latest installment of the current Allen/Gruden/Manusky shit show.. Nothing to see here, move along.. I CAN'T THO!!!!  :rofl:

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Re: Off Season
« Reply #206 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 07:25:04 PM Eastern »
You guys giving up on football need to check yourself! You're passing up a perfect opportunity to drink during the day!!  :snicker:  If your a Skins fan it's mandatory, so they tell me..  :uh-huh:  Monday night was just the latest installment of the current Allen/Gruden/Manusky shit show.. Nothing to see here, move along.. I CAN'T THO!!!!  :rofl:


The Skins will be a shit show until danny boy sells the team, the shit show will then focus on the league itself
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #207 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 09:04:21 PM Eastern »
Are these secret hockey teams that I haven'nt heard aout?
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #208 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 09:06:07 PM Eastern »
Are these secret hockey tems that I haven'nt heard aout?


nonmetric football  :wackysmile:
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #209 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 09:11:23 PM Eastern »
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #210 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 09:12:52 PM Eastern »
e've got a game on ronight  though, right?
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« Reply #211 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 09:13:56 PM Eastern »
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #213 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 09:19:48 PM Eastern »
e've got a game on ronight  though, right?


yep, preseason game #4 of 6
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Re: Off Season
« Reply #214 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 10:44:48 PM Eastern »

Yeah, I gave up on the NFL.  I was never a diehard fan, but I was a pretty big skins fan.  I would usually watch them.  Maybe it's just what we did when I was growing up as a family, but now ...it's just not the same game, and there are so many more options now than there were 30-40 years ago.  I haven't really watched football in the last 5-10 years and have given up entirely over the last 3-4. I don't miss it either.  Unless I am actually bored and have nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon, and nobody is around, and I feel like killing some time (which the culmination of these things never happens), I just don't even think about it.  Glad for it.  Honestly, I think I miss the idea of it more than anything else - sit around and relax with family on a Sunday to watch our team.  I may have watched maybe 10 games in the last 5 seasons and that includes playoffs and super bowls.  I probably couldn't even name 10 current Skins players.  Actually, more like 5.  I try not to be a bitter old guy about it, but that's how it makes me feel - like a grumpy old man.
Pretty much feel the same about the direction of most things these days.  Every time I start to get angry or heated about a subject, I think...."man, I must be getting old", but the reality is...things really have taken a turn for the worse.  I can't listen to the news or watch tv without shaking my head and thinking....where have we gone
I have always been, and always will be a "substance over image" kind of guy, yet that is the opposite of what most things are today.  Nobody actually gives a crap about the truth or doing the right thing, only the appearance of it.  Politics, media, music, movie stars, pro athletes, etc, etc. As long as you look good, everything is okay.  Well...that is not going to lead our culture and our country to success.  Well, I said "nobody" but that's not accurate....mostly


I know my dead relatives would absolutely cringe at today's culture.  My uncle, who was born around 1920, lived through hard times;  depression era, served in WW2, learned, worked and lived a long 96 years.  He was one of my favorite people to talk to.  He was a man of character, with values, and a work ethic.  He made a life for himself and his family through hard work and hard times.  Lived a full life that was HARD, and was all the better for it.  I can't imagine what he would think of today's NFL and His country, which he proudly fought for, all the other shenanigans that go on in politics and today's culture and so on....


Sorry, but I have digressed into my "grumpy old man" again.  :angry:


And I AM NOT THAT OLD.  I'm only 52.  Not old enough to be a grumpy old man, so I guess I am a grumpy middle aged man.
(Yes, if you do the math, my Uncle was much too old, but my father is 78 and he was the 8th of 8 children, and was born when his father was 52 and his mother was 46.  (the doctors thought he was a tumor  :lol: [size=78%]) [/size]
He essentially grew up an only child.
My uncle was pretty much my grandfather figure.  My actual grandfather was born in 1890 and my grandmother was born in 1896.  It's crazy to think.  Grandfather died at 82 (throat cancer) but had been a heavy smoker for decades.  Grandmother lived to 97.  All 8 of there children (my aunts and uncles) lived well into there 90's.  Five of them have passed now, all lived to at least 94 years old.  (Well, my dad isn't in his 90's yet.)  The three youngest are now 92, 86, and 78.  (and the 86 year old still drives and plays golf 3-4 times a week.  Although....you REALLY don't want to ride with him.

Okay, sorry about the rant and the family history....got carried away in my old man-ness.  It would have sufficed to say...I don't watch the NFL anymore, because it stinks like most other things these days.


I too, am still hanging on for hockey.


Season get here already.  Go Caps!


Well said again, Rich.
I share so many similar feelings with you, in that post! LOL
I’ve got you by just a few years. Just turned 60 a little over a week ago.
 I also have to take breaks from the news, in order to retain my sanity!
 Big agree with you, on substance over the superficial thing.
If one cares to be observant, you can see it in almost every facet of life.  It’s a real shame!
 
Anyway, trudging right along with ya, buddy!!👍


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Re: Off Season
« Reply #215 on: Wednesday September 25, 2019, 11:08:48 PM Eastern »
You guys giving up on football need to check yourself! You're passing up a perfect opportunity to drink during the day!!  :snicker:  If your a Skins fan it's mandatory, so they tell me..  :uh-huh:  Monday night was just the latest installment of the current Allen/Gruden/Manusky shit show.. Nothing to see here, move along.. I CAN'T THO!!!!  :rofl:


LMFAO!!
Hey Mick! How ya been?
I found moving on from the skins, and NFL, to ACTUALLY do it, was a long and difficult process.
In my mind, I kept holding on, hoping and waiting for it to come back. and it doesn’t. Then, you hold on a little longer for the next season, and you realize that letting go of NFL football.....NFL FOOTBALL, I said....means that “THEY” WIN. (On a deeper level, it means I “LOSE”, in standing up for the aspects of life I thought mattered! NFL football of yesteryear, played a big part in shaping many of the honorable attitudes of life, for me!........OK, enough of the serious stuff! Sorry!


Anyway, on a lighter note, I’m happy to report that I’ve given up on the NFL....BUT...
Who, the hell, said anything about giving up some good Sunday drinking??🤣😂🤣😂


DC’s been by on a Sunday or two, and we’ve had NO PROBLEM!!🤣😂


Good to hear from ya, Mick!


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Re: Off Season
« Reply #216 on: Thursday September 26, 2019, 07:42:26 AM Eastern »

LMFAO!!
Hey Mick! How ya been?
I found moving on from the skins, and NFL, to ACTUALLY do it, was a long and difficult process.
In my mind, I kept holding on, hoping and waiting for it to come back. and it doesn’t. Then, you hold on a little longer for the next season, and you realize that letting go of NFL football.....NFL FOOTBALL, I said....means that “THEY” WIN. (On a deeper level, it means I “LOSE”, in standing up for the aspects of life I thought mattered! NFL football of yesteryear, played a big part in shaping many of the honorable attitudes of life, for me!........OK, enough of the serious stuff! Sorry!


Anyway, on a lighter note, I’m happy to report that I’ve given up on the NFL....BUT...
Who, the hell, said anything about giving up some good Sunday drinking??🤣😂🤣😂


DC’s been by on a Sunday or two, and we’ve had NO PROBLEM!!🤣😂


Good to hear from ya, Mick!


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Re: Off Season
« Reply #217 on: Thursday September 26, 2019, 08:40:57 PM Eastern »
Nationals just took 5 in a row from Pilly. Bryce deserves what he’s gonna get from the fans up there
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« Reply #218 on: Friday September 27, 2019, 09:58:02 AM Eastern »

LMFAO!!
Hey Mick! How ya been?
I found moving on from the skins, and NFL, to ACTUALLY do it, was a long and difficult process.


Hey Puck! Doin pretty good.. Lookin forward to some hockey! Unfortunately I can't move on from the Skins.. Ingrained at birth.  :-\ :rofl:  At least I no longer give em' any of my money.. Still have to watch though..  :O= Hope you're doin' well! We should be back in the swing here in a couple more days!! Go Caps!!  :uh-huh:


Rich, "Grumpy old man" is a frame of mind.. Just embrace it!!  :P

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Re: Off Season
« Reply #219 on: Saturday September 28, 2019, 10:37:04 PM Eastern »

Hey Puck! Doin pretty good.. Lookin forward to some hockey! Unfortunately I can't move on from the Skins.. Ingrained at birth.  :-\ :rofl:  At least I no longer give em' any of my money.. Still have to watch though..  :O= Hope you're doin' well! We should be back in the swing here in a couple more days!! Go Caps!!  :uh-huh:


Rich, "Grumpy old man" is a frame of mind.. Just embrace it!!  :P


Totally understand how deeply embedded those feelings can be, brother!
It’s my hope that NFL football will turn around one day, if they get enough fan pressure, or whatever else it would take to get there! No that optimistic that it’s anytime real soon, though!


Yeah man, lookin forward to hockey, for real! Glad it’s upon us.
We’ll be here postin’ with ya, buddy!


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